Garment-supporter.



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GABMENT SUPPIURTEH.

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CLINTON W. BROWN, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TOYB. K.

` SMITH AND OO., OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A FIRM.

GARNI ENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,774, dated December 2, 1902. Application filed January 23, 1902. Serial No. 90,944.. (No model.)

T a/ZZ whom t `mayconcern,.-

Be it known that I, CLINTON W. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

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My invention relates to an improved device adapted for a skirt-supporter; and it consists in the improved construction of the supporter, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front view of a garment-supporter embodying my improvement. y Fig. 2 represents an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a top view. Fig. 4 represents a fragmentary edge view of the supporter, with the connected skirt, belt, and shirt-waist rep- Fig. 5 represents an edge view with the shirt-waist removed. Fig. 6 represents an edge view of the supporter without the attaching-pin. Fig. 7 represents the cut-out blank from which the body of the `supporter is formed. Fig. 8 represents an edge view of the same.

In the drawings, Figs. l, 2, and 3, A r'epresents the body portion of the garment-supporter, to the back of which is jointed the spring-pin B by means of the ears C C, which are preferably made integral with the body portion. The blank a. for forming the said body portion is first stamped up and cut out from a plate of sheet metal in theform shown in Fig. 7 and having the engaging points b b struck from the front to the back side of the blank, as shown in Fig. 8, the said blank being also provided with the curved slit c, whereby the central portion of the blank is to be turned outward from the portion e to form a hook D for the belt E, and the portion f, from which the hook D was formed, turned inward to form the back portion F of the sup-l porter, to which the spring-pin B is jointed, the engaging points b b extending upward between the backwardly-turned portion F and the intermediate portion e at opposite sides of the space g, so that the inserted skirt Gr will be firmly retained thereby while the spring-pin B is engaged with the shirt-waist H. When the supporter is to be employed without the use of the spring-pin B, the said pin is to be turned against the back portion F of the supporter, as shown in Fig. 5, and when the spring-pin is not required for use the supporter is to be made without the said pin, as shown in Fig. 6, the belt then serving to hold up the skirt.

I claim as my invention-` l. A garment-'supporter provided with a forwardly-turned hook, a backwardly-turned portion provided with an opening from within which the said hook was taken, and the intermediate portion, the said backwardlyturned and intermediate portions being provided with engaging spurs, adapted to hold an inclosed garment, substantially as de scribed. v

V2. AA garment-supporter provided with a forwardly-turned hook, a backwardly-turned portion provided with an opening from within which the said hook was taken, the intermediate portion, and the spring-pin jointed to the backwardly-turned portion, the said backwardly-turned and intermediate portions being provided with engaging spurs,substan tially as described.

CLINTON W. BROWN. Witnesses:

SOCRATES SOHOLEIELD, FREDERIC A. FAIRBEOTHER, `J r. 

